Ann M. Becker

Smallpox in Washington's Army

Disease, War, and Society during the Revolutionary War

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

During the Revolutionary War smallpox created havoc within both the British and American armies and the colonial civilian population. Washington's implementation of isolation policies and troop innoculations removed the threat of epidemic smallpox and ultimately protected Amer...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9781793630698
• ISBN-10: 1793630690
• Artikelnr.: 64948118

Autorenporträt

Ann M. Becker is associate professor history at SUNY Empire State College.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1"The Most Terrible of All Ministers of Death": Smallpox in the
Atlantic World
Chapter 2"Send ye Small pox Into ye Army": The British and the Double-Edged
Sword of Smallpox
Chapter 3"Able and Willing to Bear Arms": Dunmore in the South
Chapter 4"Vigilance against this most dangerous Enemy": Smallpox at the
Siege of Boston
Chapter 5"Ruined with Smallpox": The Canadian Campaign
Chapter 6"Disobedience ... will be most severely punished": New York and
the Health of the Troops
Chapter 7"Nothing but death ... before me": Smallpox in Revolutionary War
Prisons
Chapter 8 "To Stop the Progress of the Small Pox": Washington Inoculates
His Army
Chapter 9"The Seeds of Small Pox": Smallpox on the Road to Yorktown and
Beyond